Follow-up from Entreprenörsdagen in Göteborg
October 31st, 2008 by Fabian Pfortmüller
Photo by Martin Stenmark, Sweden
I had the great pleasure to speak at the Entreprenörsdagen last Monday in Göteborg, Sweden, about Generation Y Entrepreneurs and their ways of doing business. I met so many exciting people in Sweden and will publish some of the video interviews I made in the next couple of days and weeks on this blog.
I wanted to share my presentation with everyone (find it here) (made with the great technology of Zuiprezi, Budapest, Hungary, many thanks for your support!) and also include selected background links which have inspired me. I’m very curious to hear what people think and would love to get feedback and suggestions for improvements for the next time.
Many thanks and congratulations to the organizers for their great work!
Selected background information & sources of inspiration
About Gen Y & Entrepreneurship
Ryan Allis, an extraordinary young American serial entrepreneur: “The Potential of the third generation of Tech Entrepreneurs“, “The opportunity of our lifetimes“, and “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur”
ReadWriteWeb articles, a technology blog with great insights into Gen Y and business: “Welcome to the world of Gen Y“, “Why Gen Y is going to change the Web“, and “Entreprise 2.0”
About Gen Y in business
- Naked Generations, London based Gen Y consultancy by our friend and Sandboxer Christopher Lomas.
- Forrester research on new generation workforce, good insights from the HR perspective
- Generation C(ASH), insights by Trendwatch about Gen Y from a marketing / sales perspective.
Inspiring young Gen Y companies
- Kusiri, London based Entreprise 2.0 technology company, by Sandboxer Andrew Fogg, bringing Web2.0 technologies into corporates.
- Gen Y Innovation catalyst Play&Build Berlin, Germany, the new form of incubating from our friends & Sandbox supporters Hans Raffauf & Mathias Holzmann.
Additional, random sources of inspiration
Incubaker, a young fast prototyping innovation company, New York & San Francisco, US, by our friends and Sandboxers Dave Radparvar & Co.
http://gee.ky, Blog, by San Francisco based Sandboxer Melissa Sconyers
“Six degrees of seperation is now three”
A new kind of venture capitalist, NY Times article about Union Ventures
Hi Carl,
I answer in behalf of Fabian to your question about the technologies we know, that allow us to better manage the Sandbox core team.
Here are a few links to interesting tools, we are using all of them. I will explain how we use them in more details in one of the next blog posts.
- http://www.highrisehq.com a simple-to-use-though-very-powerful CRM
- http://www.wikidot.com where we share most of our information
- http://www.wuala.com a very good file sharing tool made by friends of us in Zurich
- http://www.ididwork.com a work log
- http://www.rememberthemilk.com an excellent task manager
- http://www.delicious.com to share and organise links
Hope it helps,
Antoine
Hi Fabian,
I liked your presentation and the subject especially. How to get young people inspired and in charge of their futures is a great task.
I was wondering if you have some tips on how to collaborate efficiently, cheaply and webbased? I am involved with many people in lots of different projects and would like to simplify our collaborations. As a person dealing with lots of students I would naturally try to dissipitate there tips.
As I am 34, sandbox is to late, ;).
So technologies?
Networks?
Networktechnologies?
Keep on innovating!
Carl
Very well done Fabian! Your presentation took the audience like a tornado. I've been spoken to a lot of listeners after the show and they were all amazed about the generation y. Some new ideas come up and I think the old business owners out there started to realize what a big resource our generation are. One question you’ve got after the presentation was: “How can you hire a generation-y-guy to a company when you know that the person will work only a few hours a day, then will be focusing something else.” The answer you gave to that was great and was something like this: “To be sure to let that person be involved in the project at a high level and be sure that he is passionate about what he’s working on.” I know that you want some feedback. Here is some: I think you should shorten your presentation a little (not sure where and how) and take up the perspective from an old business executive eye. How they can take advantage of the generation-y and what they should do when they hire someone from that generation. So they can be certain that the person is effective. I wish you best of luck in the future! / Viktor Nord
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